Kevin Pangos (PG; Sr.; Gonzaga)
NBA Position: Point Guard
Class: Senior
Ht: 6-2
Wt: 185
Hometown: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
High School: Denison Secondary
Notes: 6'1.5 (in shoes) 180 lbs, with a 5'11.5 wingspan at the 2013 Nike Guard Skills Academy ...
6'2.5 (in shoes) 185 lbs, with a 5'11.5 wingspan at the 2014 Nike Guard Skills Academy
by Matthew Snyder, Slam Magazine, March 2015
“I get kind of addicted to consciously trying to improve at something,” Kevin Pangos tells us over the phone.
Gonzaga’s star 6-2 senior point guard expounds upon this point by referencing the create-a-player mode in video games. The way you want to keep playing so those skill sliders keep boosting. “That’s how I think of my game,” Pangos says. “I’m always trying to think of different ways to become the best I can be.”
Enter countless hours spent in the gym, where Pangos tinkers and tailors like a craftsman of old. He won’t leave until he becomes suffently proficient in the most minute of details. Uncommon? Yes, but this is Pangos we’re talking about. He finds the process meditative.
Last season, he battled through turf toe and a left ankle sprain. He still managed to average a career-best 14.4 points. This year, he’s still knocking down threes but scoring less while distributing to the tune of 5.5 apg.
Following the loss to Arizona in the NCAA Tournament, the Zags’ fifth straight exit in the Round of 32, Pangos shut everything down for three months. But a familiar itch soon resurfaced. “I don’t think I was the most fun person to be around,” he says, laughing. “I couldn’t get in the gym. I was missing my sanctuary.”
You think of the point guard lineage at GU. Some guy named Stockton. Santangelo. Dickau. Stepp. Raivio. Bouldin. Pangos might just be the catalyst to finally tip them into the Final Four.
There is considerable turnover in Gonzaga’s roster, but Pangos raves about the way this team is beginning to blend. When it starts to really click, watch out. The city of Spokane, basketball-mad as ever, waits with bated breath. But leave it to Pangos to cast the definitive word on all that potential.
“We’ve got a ton of talent, but talent only means so much,” he says. “You’ve got to put it together and play as a team. And we’re getting better at that every single day.”
— Matthew Snyder, Slam Magazine, March 2015
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